BENTON COUNTY — All it takes is one phone call to change your plans.
My plan was to spend some nice quiet time in my office studying for the next Sunday’s sermon. Everything was going as planned, until the phone rang. The news that the caller shared with me made me drop everything at once. My priorities completely changed. I dropped everything I was doing because, at that moment, studying nor anything else was important.
Nothing really mattered except for the unplanned mission that I was getting ready to embark upon.
The news the caller shared with me was that two of my horses were out, and at the moment they were taking a tour down Ark. Hwy. 72. Why did my plans change? Because horses don’t do so well on busy highways. They are much better off in the pasture.
I grabbed a feed bucket and a halter, jumped in my truck and found them smack dab in the middle of the highway running like the devil was chasing them. With the help of some other people, we managed to catch them and put them back in their safe pasture, and all was well.
Those horses had no idea of the danger they werein and what would have eventually happened if they would have continued running down the busy highway.
People can be the same way. The grass on the other side of the fence looks greener. We can be deceived that there is more freedom over there. All that is over there is danger, heartache and heartbreak.
It’s what the Bible calls the dominion of darkness. God loves us so much that he has made rescuing us his number one priority. Why?
Because we don’t do so well out there. Real freedom and life is found in his pasture.
Colossians 1:13 - 14 “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”◊◊◊
Editor’s note: Tim Wallace is pastor of Cross Brand Church. To contact him, e-mail [email protected].
For more of Tim’s articles, go to www.tallinthesaddle.wordpress.org
Church, Pages 2 on 05/02/2012